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See List of Plays on 2d, 3d and 4th pages of Cover. 
No. CLIV. 

.HE MINOR DRAMA. 



THE GREAT 

TRAGIC REVIVAL. 

A NEW AND UNDOUBTEDLY ORIGINAL 

IN ONE ACT AID SEVERAL TABLEAUX. 
BY JOHN BROUGHAM, COMEDIAN. 



WITH CAST OF CHARACTERS, STAGE BUSINESS, COSTUMES, 
RELATIVE POSITIONS, &c, &c. 



AS PERFORMED AT BURTON'S THEATRE. 



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FRENCH'S STANDARD DRAMA, 

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VOL. I. 

1. Ion, 

2. Fazio, 

3. The Lady of Lyons, 

4. Richelieu, 

5. The Wife, 

6. The Honeymoon, 

7. The School for Scandal 

8. Money, 

With a Portrait and Me- 
moir of Mrs. A. C. 
MOWATT. 

VOL. V. 

33. A New Way to Pay 

Old Debts, 

34. Look Before You Leap 

35. King John, 

36. Nervous Man, 

37. Damon and Pythias, 

38. Clandestine Marriage 

39. William Tell, 

40. Day after the Wedding 

With a' Portrait and Me- 
moir of G. COLMAN, 
the Elder. 

VOL. IX. 

65. Love, 

66. As You Like It, 

67. The Elder Brother, 

68. Werner, 

69. Gisippus, 

70. Town and Country. 

71. King Lear, 

72. Blue Devils, 

With a Portrait and Me- 
moir of Mrs. SHAW. 



VOL. XIII. 

97. Soldier's Daughter, 

98. Douglas, 

99. Marco Spada, 

100. Nature's No'bleman, 

101. Sardanapalus, 

102. Civilization, 

103. The Robbers, 

104. Katharine and Pe- 

truchio. 
With a Portrait and Me- 
moir of Mr. EDWIN 
FOREST. 



129. 
130. 
131. 
132. 
133. 
134, 
135. 
136. 



161. 
162. 
163. 
164. 
165. 
166. 
167. 

168. 



VOL. XVII. 

Camille, 
Married Life, 
Wenlock of Wenlock 
Rose of Ettrickvale, 
David Copperfield, 
Aline, or the Rose of 
Pauline, [Killarney, 
Jane Eyre. 

VOL. XXI. 

All's Fair in Love, 

Hofer, 

Self, 

Cinderella, 

Phantom, 

Franklin, 

The Gunmaker of 

Moscow, 
The Love of a Prince 



VOL. II. 

9. The Stranger, 

10. Grandfather White- 

11. Richard III. [head, 

12. Love's Sacrifice, 

13. The Gamester, [ache, 

14. A Cure for the Heart- 

15. The Hunchback, 

16. Don Caesar de Bazan, 
With a Portrait and Me- 
moir of Mr. CHARLES 
KEAN. 

VOL. VI. 

41. Speed the Plough, 

42. Romeo and Juliet, 

43. Feudal Times, 

44. Charles the Twelfth, 

45. The Bridal, 

46. The Follies of a Night 

47. The Iron Chest, 

48. Faint Heart Never 

Won Fair Lady, 

With a Portrait and Me- 
moir of E. BULWER 
LYTTON. 

VOL. X. 

73. Henry VIII. 

74. Married and Single, 

75. Henry IV. 

76. Paul Pry. 

7T. Guy Mannering, 

78. Sweethearts and 

Wives, 

79. Serious Family. 

80. She Stoops to Con- 

quer, 
With a Portrait and Me- 
moir of Miss C. CUSH- 
MAN. 

VOL. XIV. 

105. Game of Love, 

106. Midsummer Night's 

Dream, 

107. Ernestine, 

108. Rag Picker of Paris, 

109. Flying Dutchman, 

110. Hypocrite, 

111. Therese, 

112. La Tour do Nesle, 
With a Portrait and Me- 
moir of Mr. JOHN 
BROUGHAM. 

VOL. XVIII. 

137. Night and Morning, 

138. ^thiop, 

139. Three Guardsmen, 

140. Tom Cringle, [ken 

141. Henriette, theForsa- 

142. EustacbeBaudin, 

143. Ernest Maltravers, 

144. Bold Dragoons. 



VOL. XXII. 

169. Son of the Night, 

170. Rory O'More, 

171. Golden Eagle, 

172. Rienzi. . 

173. Broken Sword, 

174. Rip Van Winkle, 

175. Isabelle. 

176. Heart of Midlothian, 



VOL. III. 

17. The Poor Gentleman, 

18. Hamlet, 

19. Charles II. 

20. Venice Preserved, 

21. Pizarro, 

22. The Love Chase, 

23. Othello, [lings, 

24. Lend me Five Shil- 
With a Portrait and Me- 
moir of Mr. W. E. BUR- 
TON. 

VOL. VII. 

49. Road to Ruin, 

50. Macbeth, 

51. Temper, 

52. Evadne, 

53. Bertram, 

54. The Duenna, 

55. Much Ado About No- 

thing, 

56. The Critic, 

With a Portrait and Me- 
moir of R. B. SHERI- 
DAN. 

VOL. XI. 

81. Julius Cassar, 

82." Vicar of Wakefield, 

S3. Leap Year, 

84. The Catspaw, 

83. The Passing Cloud, 

86. Drunkard, 

87. Rob Roy, 

88. George Barnwell, 

With a Portrait and Me- 
moir of Mrs. JOHN 
SEFTON. 



VOL. XV. 

113. Ireland As It Is, 

114. Sea of Ice. 

115. Seven Clerks, 

116. Game of Life, 

117. Forty Thieves, 

118. Bryan Boroihrae, 

119. Romance& Reality. 

120. Ugolino, 

With a Portrait and Me- 
moir of Mr. BARNEY 
WILLIAMS. 

VOL. XIX. 

145. Dred, or -the Dismal 

Swamp, 

146. Last Days of Pom- 

147. Esmeralda, [peii, 

148. Peter Wilkins, 

149. Ben the Boatswain, 

150. Jonathan Bradford, 

151. Retribution, 

152. Minerali. 

vol. xxni. 

177. Actress of Padua, 

178. Floating Beacon, 

179. Bride of Lammer- 

moor, [S es ' 

180. Cataract of the Gan- 

181. Robber of the Rhine 

182. School of Reform, 

183. Wandering Boys, 

184. Mazeppa. 



VOL. IV. 

25. Virginius, 

26. King of the Commons 

27. London Assurance, 

28. The Rent Dav, 

29. Two Gentlemen of 

Verona, 

30. The Jealous Wife, 

31. The Rivals, 

32. Perfection, 

With a Portrait and Me- 
moir of J. H. HACKETT 

VOL/ VIII. 

57. The Apostate, 

58. Twelfth Night, 
59 Brutus, 

60. Simpson & Co. 

61. Merchant of Venice, 

62. Old Heads and Young 

Hearts, 

63. Mountaineers. 

64. Three Weeks After 

Marriage. 
With a Portrait and Me- 
moir of Mr. GEORGE 
H. BARRETT. 

VOL. XII. 

89. Ingomar, 

90. Sketches in India, 

91. Two Friends, 

92. Jane Shore, 

93. Corsican Brothers, 

94. Mind Your Own Bus- 

iness, 

95. Writing on the Wall, 

96. Heir at Law, 

With a Portrait and Me- 
moir of Mr. THOMAS 
HAMBLIN. 

VOL. XVI. 

121. The Tempest. 

122. The Pilot, 

123. Carpenter of Rouen, 

124. King's Rival, 

125. Little Treasure, 

126. Dombey and Son, 

127. Parents and Guard- 

128. Jewess. [ians, 



VOL. XX. 

153. French Spy, 

154. Wept of Wish-ton 

Wish, 

155. Evil Genius, 

156. Ben Bolt, 

157. Sailor of France, 

158. Red Mask, 

159. Life of an Actress, 

160. Wedding Day. 



185. 
186. 
187 
188 
189 
190 
191 
192 



VOL. XXIV. 
Young New York. 
The Victims. 
Romance after Mar- 
Brigand, [riage, 
Poor of New York, 
Ambrose Gwinett, 
Raymond and Agnes, 
Gambler's Fate, 



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THE MINOR DRAMA 

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THE ARGUMENT. v \ 



Great truths have frequently been thundered into the world's ear, 
through the instrumentality of the player's art. It is self-evident 
that a common-place and UNDIGNIFIED FAMILIARITY now per- 
vades the atmosphere of every-day life. How different the superb 
Nimbus, of cold but classic formality, which surrounded the heroes 
of the olden time, as recently exemplified at all our first theatres. 
Compare the diction and demeanor of 

MR. PRIME MINISTER RICHELIEU 

with those of the 

HONORABLE LEWIS CASS. 
What a declension ! What a humiliating change ! 

It is the province of the dramatist to show society its errors, re- 
gardless of private prejudice or public animadversion. The conven- 
tional conversational tone is utterly 

UNWORTHY THE GREAT AGE WE LIVE IN. 

It must be elevated to the proper histrionic standard. Therefore, 
acknowledging the necessity of this radical reform, 

COME, SEE, AND BE INSTRUCTED. 
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THE PROGRAMME. 

DISTRIBUTION OF CHARACTERS. 

Marcus Brutus Richelieu Samith Mr. Brougham. 

C assius Marc Antony Shtlock Barown Mr. Burton. 

Iago Iachimo Jones Mr. Walcot. 

Romeo Stubbs Mr. Barrett. 

Tom Bernardo Mr. Setchell. 

Bill Rubaldi Mr. McRae 

Jessica Barown Miss Polly Marshall. 

Helen McGregor Miss Stella. 

Policemen, Messengers, &c. 

The scene, which may be thought singularly inappropriate, has been recklessly 
selected, without the SLIGHTEST REGARD TO EXPENSE, and will represent a 
baronial hall of Mediaeval magnificence, the same being an old and well-established 
favorite — such unquestionable claims to consideration being deemed sufficient equi- 
valent for its unfitness in every particular. The plot of the drama, together with a 
pair of antique folding doors, will be simultaneously opened by two WAITERS IN 
LIVERY, disclosing an ante-chamber of regal proportions. The speculative specta- 
tors may exercise their imaginative faculties in picturing to themslves what a 
GORGEOUS BAL MASQUE might be given in those elegant saloons, if its legal 
possibility could be achieved. Also, what countless PYRAMIDS OP ICE CREAM, 
and GOBLETS OP ORIENTAL SHERBET might be consumed in such a fairy-like 
retreat, especially if heightened by the introduction of an ALABASTER FOUNTAIN 
OP REAL WATER, temperately diluted with suppositious COGNAC, from any of 
the hotels. 

Important Notice. — It is a well accredited fact that the pabulum which sustains 
the art life of both actors and dramatists is PUBLIC APPROBATION. In order 
that the invigorating and indispensi le mental aliment should be administered at the 
proper period, A GONG WILL BE SOUNDED whenever a joke of sufficient magni- 
tude shall have eventuated. 

N. B. — Should the drama not be found sufficiently absorbing, the MORNING AND 
EVENING PAPERS, together with Harpers' Magazine or the New York Directory, 
will be found admirably adapted to divert undue attention, and ameliorate the rigor 
of intellectual fatigue. 



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THE GREAT TRAGIC REVIVAL. 



SCENE I. — Breakfast Room in the House of Shyloch Barown. 
Bill Berxardo and Ton Rubaldi meeting — Bill with dish, R. 

Bill. What ho ! who passes there ? 

Tom. Hush ! Behold ! do you not know me ? 

Bill. Rubaldi, or my eye deceives me. 

Tom. The same. Bernardo, say, is. breakfast ready ? 

Bill. Why should'st thou deem me so neglectful ? Of a surety it 
is. The viands of the best that Centre Market can provide. Steak 
of beef and feet of juicy pig ; the succulent buckwheat and the appe- 
tizing corn ; flapjacks of mouth-watering flavor ; thin bacon frizzled ; 
tenderest chickens of the early spring ; eggs in all culinary phases ; 
the Chinese herb and the Arabian berry ; and all the rich concomi- 
tants that tempt the changeful palate of uncertain man. [Crosses, l. 

Tom. By Tantalus and his receding grapes, thou fill'st me with a 
mighty longing! 

Bill. Alas, my friend! what boots it that I thus exert myself? My 
care is wasted, inasmuch as they for whom I toil and thus embrown 
my skin o'er subterranean fires, come not to partake while calorific 
principle pervades the bountiful repast ? Say, in what temper did'st 
thou leave the partner friends ? 

Tom. {Brings him forward.'] Beshrew me — but let this be secret as 
the fluctuation in to-morrow's stock — I do deceive myself, and hugely, 
if there be not some ill-feeling toward. I did note their looks as 
they did shave ; no word of greeting sprang to either lip, as hereto- 
fore ; the elder's hand did shake consumedly. 

Bill. Betokening haply a carouse last night. 

Tom. Not so ; the usual oyster only, washed down by no more po- 
tent night-cap. 

Bill. Of whiskey? 

Tom. Hot! 

Bill. Ha ! guessed I not aright ? 

Tom. Be the cause what it may, unfriendly were their looks. 

Bill. I can interpret well the reason. Mark my words : our gentle 
Jessica the old Samith affects. 

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Bill. Past all doubt. 

Torn. Returns she not his passion? 

Bill. Not a whit ; her eye has lighted on a younger swain, with 
winsome features but with coffers light ; a clerk he is and in our em- 
ploy. I've watched intently as a faithful servitor should, every tittle 
of his lord's affairs ; and many a sweet stolen interview have over- 
seen and heard. But hark ! a footstep ! Be thy tongue silent and thy 
heart discreet. [Exeunt. Musk. 

Enter Tago Joxes and Romeo Stubbs, c. 

Jones. I tell thee, Stubbs, thou art a fool — upon my life, a fool — a 
most sandsighted and unthinking fool. This is the breakfast room of 
those same merchants. I know not at what moment they may enter, 
so we can converse with secresy. Now list to me. Have I not pro- 
ven myself your friend ? did I, at any bar, howe'er expensive, ever 
smile, and thou not counted in? Who*got thee tickets for the 
Crystal Palace Ball ? Who led thy wandering footsteps to each place 
of mirth and fevelry ? Who taught thee every move upon the cards 
of life, from princely faro down to simple muggins ? Have I not, 
therefore, earned the right to call thee friend ? 

Romeo. Thou hast, I own it, and I thank thee, Jones. 

Jones. That cordial grasp assures me thou art honest. Now for this 
wayward girl, thy Jessica, she whom you think you love. 

Romeo. Think ! Now, by the high ambitious hopes that swell within 
my breast, that one day I may see my humble name with theirs con- 
joined — Barown, Samith & Co., the foremost dry goods firm in all the 
land, I do not think, friend Jones — I know I love her ; else, why 
beats, like the ticking of a clock, my heart's machinery against my 
ribs? 

Jones. Pshaw, man ! it's but incipient indigestion. A skillfully 
prepared light brandy cocktail will effect an instant cure. Besides, 
she is not worthy of your love. 

Romeo. Oh, say not that, or Bloomingdale's retreat will hold ano- 
ther inmate ! She uuworthy ! then are contractors honest, city funds 
unplundered, demagogues unselfish, revivals real, crime extinct, 
policemen vigilant, and Paradise reopened on Manhatta's isle ! Why 
do you tear my soul by such an accusation ? 

Jones. Enough, to say I know it. Her most luxurious and expen- 
sive tastes would drain the the coffers of a millionaire. What is your 
present income ? 

Romeo. Eight hundred dollars a year. 

Jones. It wouldn't buy her gloves. 
- Romeo. Oh, yes ! A plain and frugal home, haloed by love's ecstatic 
radiance, would be to us an everlasting summer ; love, satisfying love 
would be our ever- varying and perpetual banquet, with whose am- 
brosial food our happy home would be so amply stored, it would be 
but sacrilege to hunger after grosser sustenance. [Crosses, r. 

Joues. That won't last long. In time you'll find a thick beef steak 
a pleasant change. 

Romeo. Away with such a thought ! Oh ! I could live upon the 
memory of love alone ! 



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Jones. That's because you've had your breakfast ; you'll change 
opinions before dinner time. However, you have the right to do as 
you please — you have means sufficient. Has it not recently been 
clearly proved, and to the satisfaction of our wealthiest merchants, 
that a mere plodding book-keeping machine is amply able, on the 
enormous income he receives, to keep a wife, feed, clothe and educate 
his numerous progeny, and teach them, all the value of that first of 
virtues, content. Yes, you had better marry. Hark ! in your ear. 
These men are ruined — I know it — and she won't have a cent. 

Romeo. You freeze and fire me at the same instant ; but you can 
neither congeal my warm affection, nor burn down the edifice that 
love has raised within my heart. 

Jones. But the dimes, boy, the dimes ; she knows their value if thou 
dost not. 

Romeo. What mean you ? 

Jones. Mean, my Stubbs ? 

Romeo. Aye, mean ; is she not honest ? 

Jo?ies. Honest, my Stubbs ? 

Romeo. By heaven, thou echo'st me ! I'll know thy thought ! 

Jones. Oh, no, you won't 

Romeo. I will ! 

Jones. Not and the court do know itself right well ; and she is un- 
der the impression that she do. 

Romeo. Then friendship's but a name, and all is lost ! She, you, 
and all the bright and beautiful world of life and hope of which I 
had dreamed! Yon placid river woos me to its quiet bed. 'Twill be 
but one more mysterious disappearance. Adieu, unsympathizing 
friend, adieu ! 

Jones. Stay, stay, rash youth ! Has death no terrors ? Think of 
the coroner ! 

Romeo. Ha ! 

Jones. Your likeness in the papers ! taken at second hand — perhaps 
from some dead malefactor ! Don't talk of drowning, but drown your 
grief in some strong whiskey punch. Listen; you've conquered — 
have an eye on Jessica — watch her when old Samith's about. 

Romeo. Samith! 

Junes. Samith ! she thinks he has the pewter, see if he don't lavish 
on her cheap Gift book-store bracelets, and play house orders when 
the free list's not suspended. Keep all your senses about you, I have 
said enough. Now am I your friend? 

Romeo. You are — you are ! for you have made me most unhappy ! I'll 
watch the gray-headed old sinner closely, and as for her, if I do find 
she's playing the coquette, I'll go upon the tallest kind of spree ! 

[Crosses R. 

Jones. Ha ! now I see there's spirit in you — put money in your 
pocket and I'll see you through. 

Romeo. I will. 

Jones. Do ! [Exit Romeo, c] Now who is it that says I am a hum- 
bug? I've told a pack of lies here, to be sure, but if he don't see 
through them I am not to blame. Now let me cogitate : I must be 
partner in this house, and also wed this girl, not that I love her, I'm 



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not such a fool ; but with her fortune I can have a high old time. 
He's in my way on both sides and must be removed ; but how ? I 
have it, in some forgetful moment I'll induce him to walk out after 
dark, if then some accidental slung shot don't accelerate his exit, 
the doctrine of Chances will be grievously at fault. 
'Tis here, but yet a little mite confused, 
Just as his head will be when it is contused. 

[Exit, l. 
Music. Enter Samith, c. 

Samith. I marvel much how goes the time ; methinks 'tis late, or 
else this monitor is fast. What a most wondrous thing is appetite ! 
When appertaining to a regular habit, with what mechanical correct- 
ness it doth point the hour of meals. What, ho ! who waits there ? 
Ho ! Bernardo, is breakfast ready ? 

Bill Bernardo enters, l. 
Bill. Sir, it is. 

Rich. [Up.] I could have sworn it. 'Tis well, Bernardo. I'll wait a 
space ; give me the morning paper. 

Tom, enters, R. 

Tom. Behold it here. [Gives it and retires up. 

Rich. Much thanks for such immediate service. Oh! thou diurnal 
destiny, thou all the world's condensed epitome, upon whose virgin 
sheet, so white, so pure, although from filthy shreds and meanest 
rags obtained, the footmarks of the passing time are ineffaceably 
imprinted ; birthplace of mighty thoughts that make their utterers 
immortal ; life, breath, and quickening impulse of the universal now, 
midway between the buried past and the unborn to come. At once 
the camp-ground and the battle-field of human energy from whence 
arises the commingled cry of victor and of vanquished, the jubilant 
chorus of triumphant aspirations blent with the sorrowing wail of 
hopes and hearts o'ermastered and undone. Oh thou most variable 
all-potent word-wizard, to how many thousand thousand wilt thou 
this day bring, or life or death, or liberty or bondage, joy or sorrow ; 
hope's blessed sunray or the blackness of despair ; a tremor of ex- 
citement thrills me at this moment, even as at the faro bank, one eyes 
the turning card with feverish anticipation ; while I gaze — ha ! my 
brain grows dizzy and my eye-sight fails ! Erie ! perdition seize the 
stock, is down again! and I, alas, a Bull ! [Chord. 

Tom. The breakfast, sir. 

Rich. Ill-mannered menial, talk not to me of breakfast. Can it not 
penetrate through thy thick skull that I have lost a million break- 
fasts ! Aye, a million gaping idiots even in the transitory instant 
that sufficed thee to pronounce that simple sentence. 

Bill. Pardon your humble servitor if he suggest that haply your 
good friend and partner, who now approaches, may cheer thee with 
his sympathy. 

Rich. Peace, thou audacious varlet ! these words but sting me 
closer. No comfort can I get from him, or even sympathy, for he is 
a Bear. [Chord. 



THE GREAT TRAGIC REVIVAL. 7 

Music. Enter Barowx, tragically — he paces to and fro. 

Tom. The shadow of a mighty grief is on him also. 

Bill. Sorrow is sacred, let us retire, they'll doubtless help them- 
selves. {.They retire, 0. 

Rich. What moves him so ? That letter it would seem. Shylock, 
what is the news ? 

Shy. Appalling ! hideous ! frightful ! horrible and bad. 

Rich. "Where from ? 

Shy. The West. 

Rich. Another failure ! 

Shy. You have said it. The miserable, mean picayune, unworthy 
wretch, who bought from you last fall, is bankrupt ! and his excuse, 
forsooth, the lame one of the panic. That obsolete palladium of 
rascality. Why do they prate of crops and an abundant harvest, 
when, by my halidome, the only crop I find is an unseemly one of 
bills protested ? 

Rich. Pray restrain thy choler for a while ; in business such as ours 
contingencies like this are not uncommon. 

Shy. I grant you, sir, but are they less annoying? A failure or 
two I would hot have minded, by debts of confidence at all secured, 
but thus to come in swarms is not agreeable. I'd hold him most un- 
manly and milk-livered who would fierce outcry raise from a mere 
mosquito bite, but say a million plunged their dagger snouts in him 
at once, say would he not outbellow all the bulls of Bashaw? 

Rich. Nay, I entreat you to be calm. Wilt take an egg ? 

Shy. I think I will, that is, if rightly cooked. 

Rich. That thou must risk. A subtle thing it is to fitly time the 
boiling of a simple egg. Tea or coffee? 

Sky. Thou knowest right well I never taste the former. I cannot 
eat. I have no appetite. 

Rich. Sooth to say, nor I. {.They rise. 

Shy. The villain ! nearly thirteen thousand dollars, not to mention 
the lost dry goods. 

Rich. That's nothing ; I have lost in Erie. 

Shy. Ha ! did you Bull that stock ? 

Rich. Alas ! I did. 

Shy. And for the firm ? 

Rick. No ! 

Shy. That word has saved thy life. 

Rich. Then am I glad I spoke it. 

Shy. You should be, yet have I other wrongs. 

Rich. Make it appear. 

Shy. That you have wronged me doth appear, in this, you did give 
credit to this western man, though in my letters I had told you that 
I knew him well. 

Rich. And might you not be wrong yourself? In ticklish times Ave 
musn't be too nice ; but faith you always had an itching palm. 

Shy. I an itching palm '! You know it is Samith that talks it thus, 
else by the gods that speech had been your last ! 

Rich. Get out, you are not Barown ! 



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Sky. Yes, I am. 

Rich. No you are not. 

Shy. Take care or I'll forget myself. I am a merchant older in 
practice and abler to guide the business. 

Rich. Away, slight man ! 

Shy. Oh, Jupiter, must I endure all this. 

Rich. All this and more. I'm glad you told me that you were an 
abler merchant. I'll learn of you to buy and sell dry goods. 

Shy. Samith, you wrong me every way. I said an older merchant 
not a better ; did I say better ? 

Rich. You said better, but what do I care what you said ; you're 
nothing but a blower after all ! 

Shy. A what ? 

Rich. A blower. 

Shy. Such insolence can only be washed out in blood ! 

Rich. With all my heart. {.They rush at each other. 

Jessica rushes on, and interferes. 

■Jes. Father and friends, what madness rules the hour ? Stop this 
unnatural broil, or let your knives release the bubbling blood that's 
boiling here. [Crosses r. 

Shy. Let us dissemble before her, just for appearance sake, enor- 
mous villain. 

Rich. Agreed ponderous caitiff. I had forgot myself. Revenge, 
remember, rankles yet within my heart. 

Shy. It is nothing, dearest — one sanguinary word. Pestiferous 
wretch — Hoboken ! 

Rich. Enough. The dry Jersey soil shall drink up thy heart's 
blood ! 

Jes. [Crosses center.'] It glads me to the soul to see that you are 
friends once more, for I would fain crave of you a boon. 

Shy. My child, what is it? 

Jes. For Musard's ball some tickets have been sent ; the world of 
fashion will be there, my sire, and I, of course, amongst them ; but, 
alas ! unhappy me, there's a deep dread upon my soul. For six long 
weeks have I been longing for a love of a new dress, then ordered : 
and day by day still promised to be sent, and yet it comes not. If 
cruel fate should steel the milliner's heart, and, mocking at my hopes 
and griefs, she keeps that dress beyond this afternoon, life has no 
longer any joys for me. Say, will my loving sire a trusty messenger 
at once despatch ; and if it be not done, oh ! for my sake, let her be 
executed on the spot. 

Shy. Away, unthinking girl ! Think of the many lives that are al- 
ready sacrificed, plying with endless toil that little instrument of tor- 
ture, which, in our philanthropic day, numbers more victims than the 
block and cord of the most intolerant times. 

Jes. And who should right that terrible wrong, my father? Your 
noble sex, who sell and wear the product of such murderous toil, or 
ours, whose lives are sacrificed to the vile profit seekers? 

Shy. Thou knowest not what thou speakest, malapert and disobe- 
dient girl. Beware, lest I should hurl a malediction on your head. 



THE GREAT TRAGIC REVIVAL. 9 

As for you, caitiff, tremble ! for the hour of your dissolution is at 
hand. {.Exit l. 

Jes. Oh, fate ! Ob, wretched, ruthless, miserable fate ! 

Rich. Sweet Jessica, yield not to such despair. I'll send a mes- 
senger. 

Jes. Here's a ray of hope. 

Rich. But on one condition. 

Jes. What condition? 

Rich. Can'st thou not surmise ? 

Jes. No. 

Rich. My eyes, then, were sad bunglers, and did misinterpret the 
language of my heart. I love thee, Jessica. Let my bent knee evi- 
dence the homage of my soul. 

Enter at top Romeo and Iago, c. 

Iago. Now is your time. 

Romeo, [r. c] Rise, superannuated dotard, rise. 

Rich. What means this violence ? 

Iago. [l.] Send for the Police. I'll swear he struck you. Run ! 
'tis your only chance ; I'll cover your retreat. [Exit Romeo.] Sweet 
lady, pray retire. I'll calm this raging tempest. 

Rich. This outrage shall be fearfully atoned for. What, ho! there. 
Follow, follow ! [Exit. 

Jes. Nothing to wear — nothing to wear ! Exit l. 

Iago. Now, whether he catch Stubbs, or Stubbs escape, I'm safe on 
either hand. I've set the old men by the ears already ; and now, by 
covertly taking the part of one against the other, I can make friends 
with both, and so slide into the co-partnership. The girl is anxious to 
attend this ball ; but, as it's not my evening out, it must not be. The 
milliner I have told, that Jessica is indisposed, and so she need not 
hurry. The dress not come, she most assuredly will remain at home. 
Soon as the store is closed, and shutters up, this way I'll wend my 
footsteps ; and then, no rival near, will plead my cause with earnest- 
ness. She must listen to me ; or if not, I'll wait another chance. 
Your strongest citadel must yield in time to a resistless siege. 

[Exit. R. i. 

Enter Jessica and Helen M'Gregor. 

Helen. Take courage, dear mistress. What though the dress 
shouldn't come home ? you have others. 

Jes. Girl, you torture me ! Not one — not one. 

Helen. The blue striped silk. 

Jes. Old fashioned, it was made last month. 

Jes. The beautiful moire antique. 

Jes. Fit for my grandmother. 

Helen. There's your blue watered silk. 

Jes. That's too scanty. 

Hel. I'm sure it sweeps the ground. 

Jes. Of course it does, or how could dry goods' people build 
palaces 1 

Hel. Let me see — the rose. 



10 THE GREAT TRAGIC REVIVAL. 

Jes. 'Tis faded — the sweetest silks, alas will fade. 
" Last rose of summer." 

Hel. You've plenty, miss, up stairs, in wardrobes and in drawers. 

Jes. Talk not to me of wardrobes or of drawers. Have I not worn 
them all ? And are they not to me as valueless and vain as dinners 
eaten, or as sweethearts once beloved. No, no — unhappy me, that 
nothing have to wear. I'm dying, Helen. Sit beside me, and when 
I am gone, close my wretched eyes. [Sings.] Ha! look! There's 
papa driving down the avenue, in a new carriage, drawn by a beauti- 
ful team of grasshoppers. I m sleepy ; wake me when it's time to go 
to the opera. [Sings, " Wake Me Early in the fifoming."] Pah ! I'm 

very cold. See, isn't that Bagnoli no, only a canvas back duck. 

I'mfond of ducks. Hark ! listen heard you not a sound ? It is — it is the 
footstep of a friend — the milliner's messenger ; the dress is finished ; 
I'm saved ! I'm in Luck-now ! 

An irruption of people, with bandboxes, headed by Romeo. 

Romeo. I did it. I overheard the nefarious scheme to keep you from 
going to the ball. Here's your dress ; villainy is foiled, and all your 
fears are over . 

Jes. You have nobly won me ; I am thine for ever. 

Enter Shylock. 
Shy. No, he's not. I have something to say about that. 

Enter Richelieu. 

Rich. And I. 

Enter Iago. 

Iago. Aye, and I. 

Shy. We have an affair to settle first. 

Rich. Why not conclude it here ? 

Shy. At once then let it be. {They fight with umbrellas. 

Iago. The worm that you trod upon now turns. 

Romeo. I never trod upon you. 

Iago. Liar and slave ! the story is too long a one to go into now. 
But you have annoyed me, and your life or mine hangs on the issue 
now. [Fight with pistols and bowie knives. 

Jes. Police ! — Police ! Is there no help ? [Runs to window. They 
all fight a desperate combat. A squad of Police range at the back, and look 
quietly on. Jessica hastily swallows a mouthful of tea, which kills her 
instantly. Her example is followed by the devoted attendant, who collapses also. 
At the sound of the gong, they all give up the ghost, leaving the vigilant 
guardians of the peace, masters of the field. 



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